British Georgics. September (James Grahame Poems)
Clear is the sky, and temperate the air,That, scarcely stirring, wafts, with gentlest breath,The gossamer light glittering in the sun.And ...
Clear is the sky, and temperate the air,That, scarcely stirring, wafts, with gentlest breath,The gossamer light glittering in the sun.And ...
Where beauteous Belmont rears her modest browTo view Sabrina's silver waves below,Lived young Ianthe, fair as beauty's Queen;She reign'd unrivall'd ...
Oft hast thou told me, Dick, in friendly Part.That the Usurper Love has seiz'd thy Heart;But thou art young, and, ...
You were not over-patient with me, dear; This want of patience one must rightly rate:You are so young! Youth ever was ...
I.Oh, scan not too closely a heart that is thine,Whatever its error or frailties may be ;Believe not, my love, ...
I HOLD a letter in my hand,-A flattering letter, more's the pity,-By some contriving junto planned,And signed per order of ...
You argue - as sympathy governs your bias -That Wisdom distributes the capon and crust,Indulging the sinful, and stinting the ...
YOU ask me where love fails me?--what I hate?I cannot blame, for all, I hold, is fate;Yet there are hateful, ...
The quick compunction cannot serve;She saw the flash,Ere he had bent with busy handAnd drooping lash.She saw him mark for ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
GovenorsAN ardent spirit dwells with Christian love,The eagle's vigour in the pitying dove;'Tis not enough that we with sorrow sigh,That ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Part IMAGISTRATE, VAGRANT, CONSTABLE, &c. VAGRANT.Take, take away thy barbarous hand,And let me to thy ...
DUMB thunder shakes the wilds — a rising smoke,A hastening stream the curious search provoke:Lo! Kakab?ka's yawning chasm is seenScoop'd ...
THE centuries of bloodshedAre past, those cruel years;But there is still one countryWhose mountains drip with tears,Whose river-banks are blood-stained,Whose ...
SAY whom did Paul the apostle greet,As not asham'd to own his chain,But tend'ring oft refreshment sweet,To ease his toil, ...
WHEN Judas betray'dHis master and Lord,And the sum that was paidThrough compunction restor'd,The priests met in council,Sought mutual advice--They dar'd ...
professor piebald (the oldest man in the home) was meek at the same time ribald he clothed his matter (so ...
past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority beyond the woven ...
SECTION ONE "Give the engines room, Give the engines room." Louder, faster The little band-master Whips up the fluting, Hurries ...
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